Guest guest Posted January 7, 2006 Report Share Posted January 7, 2006 This is the only other article I couldn't figure out how to get. Can anyone help w/ this one? I am just assuming that this is just a summary and that there must be a full article? Thanks again, Immunol Allergy Clin North Am. 2003 May;23(2):291-309. Related Articles, Links Indoor air quality and health does fungal contamination play a significant role? Bardana EJ Jr. Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, 3181 SW Sam Park Road, OP34, Portland, OR 97239, USA. bardanae@... Fungal contamination in buildings can vary greatly, and their presence in a dwelling does not necessarily constitute exposure. Measurement of mold spores and fragments varies depending on the methodology and instruments used. Meaningful comparison of data is rarely possible. The presence of a specific immune response to a fungal antigen only connotes that exposure to one or more related species has occurred, but not that there is a symptomatic clinical state. The response of individuals to indoor bioaerosols is complex and depends on age, gender, state of health, genetic makeup, and degree and time of bioaerosol exposure. In general, mold contamination in buildings is associated with incursion of water or moisture, which should be remedied as efficiently as possible. When disease occurs, it more likely is related to transient annoyance or irritational reactions. Allergic symptoms may be related to mold proliferation in the home environment. Because molds are encountered both indoors and outdoors, it is difficult to determine where the sensitivity initially arose and if the response is solely provoked by either an indoor or outdoor source. As an indoor allergen, mold is considered to be an infrequent participant in the induction of allergic disease when compared with housedust mites, animal dander, and cockroach allergens. Infection in healthy individuals is rare and usually is caused by an outdoor source. Building-related disease caused by mycotoxicosis has not been proved in the medical literature. Publication Types: Review PMID: 12803364 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 8, 2006 Report Share Posted January 8, 2006 , these are articles from medical journals. Any medical school library should have them. Find a medical school, the bigger the better, go in and show the citation to a librarian, they should be able to tell you where it is. I am sure that you already know about PubMed, but of you don't you should check it out. Its at this URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?CMD=Display & DB=pubmed You can enter queries into the search box, and you can also use Boolean terms like AND, OR, NOT, etc. You can also get an account there for free and then you can have their system email you selected search results, etc. and also use a clipboard to store them for up to 8 hours or so.. (then email them) Try plugging the names of some molds in your home into the search box to see what you come up with. That should be a good start. Some of the articles on PubMed come with free full text access over the web (sometimes in HTML, sometimes as PDF, which you can right click on the link and save directly to disk) Others you can display the abstract (what you posted) other times, just the title. But a good university library should have the actual papers.. not just the abstracts, and you can read them there.. in their entirety.. (although they are written for doctors and bacause of that, they are often very technical - but if you spend some time reading them, you will figure some of the lingo out, enough to get a good idea of what they are talking about in many or even most cases..) BTW, the papers you are citing are not the kind of paper I would be looking for.. as they simply rehash the clearly quite clueless 'prevailing wisdom' which goes directly against the real-life experiences of almost everybody here.. And no, we are not having mass hallucinations.. these molds are really making us sick.. However, there are many powers that be that are desperately trying to deny this by any means possible, even as they know its a losing battle.. " methinks they doth protest too much " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 8, 2006 Report Share Posted January 8, 2006 Hi, Thanks for your reply. I am only looking for these two particular articles because the defendants in our case quoted from them. I have no doubt that they are bogus reports claiming that mold is harmless. They seem to always find the most ridiculous studies and papers there are to quote from. > , these are articles from medical journals. Any medical school > library should have them. Find a medical school, the bigger the > better, go in and show the citation to a librarian, they should be > able to tell you where it is. > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 8, 2006 Report Share Posted January 8, 2006 If you can't find a medical school library, you could probably order reprints of the articles from the journal publisher online with a credit card, they are typically $25-30/article On 1/8/06, Yarbrough <lyarbrough@...> wrote: > Hi, > Thanks for your reply. I am only looking for these two particular > articles because the defendants in our case quoted from them. I have > no doubt that they are bogus reports claiming that mold is harmless. > They seem to always find the most ridiculous studies and papers there > are to quote from. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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